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• "Go, litel boke! go litel myn tregedie!"
  By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (bk. V, l. 1800)
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• "And as for me, though than I konne but lyte, On bokes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But yt be seldome on the holy day. Save, certeynly, when that the monthe of May Is comen, and that I here the foules synge, And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge, Farwel my boke, and my devocion."
  By: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women (prologue, l. 29)
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• "O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thyself in prees for dred?"
  By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Flower and the Leaf (l. 591), (generally accepted as written by a fifteenth century lady admirer of Chaucer)
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• "The diffusion of these silent teachers--books--through the whole community is to work greater effects than artillery, machinery, and legislation. Its peaceful agency is to supersede stormy revolutions. The culture which it is to spread, whilst an unspeakable good to the individual, is also to become the stability of nations."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it.""
  By: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. III) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship--The Hero as a Man of Letters
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• "All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been it is lying in as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture V)
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• "If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture II)
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• "In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Corn-Law Rhymes
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• "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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